“A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Lady Jane Gray, who tho' inferior to her lovely Cousin the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman & famous… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do not think any young woman has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
